Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-26

Do not hide it. Be frank and let me
know. "Oh," you say, sit was because
she was so good; she made the Lord her
portion, and she had faith that she would
go straight to glory, and that we should
all meet her st last st the foot of the
throne"
Here are people who say: 81 saw a
Christian brother die, snd he triumphed"
And some one else: 81 saw Christian
sister die, snd she triumphed." Some
one else will say: 81 saw q Christian
daughter die, and she triumphed. :"
Come, all We who have seen the last
moments OF Christian, and give test
mony in this cause on trial Uncover
your heads, put your hand on the CID
family Bible, from which they used to
read the promises, and promise in the
presence OF high heaven that YOU will tell
| the truth, the whole truth, ard nothing
but the truth. With what you have seen
with your own eyes, and from what you
have heard with your own ears, is there
! power in this Gospel TO give calmuess
and triumph in the last exigency? The
! response comes from all sides, from
young, and old, and middle aged: eve
are Witnesses"
/ You see, my friends, l hsye not put be-
! fore you an abstraction, or Q Chimtrs, OF
anything
LIKE GUESS WORK.
| present you afidavits of the hes.
men and women, living and dead. Two
/ witnesses in court will establish fact.
| Here are not two witnesses but thou
sands of Witnesses-Cn earth millions
| of witnesses, s9d in heaven great null
! titude OF witnesses that no man cen num-
/ Der, testifying that there is power in
! this religion to convert the soul, - give
comfort in trouble, and to af0rd COM
pOsure in the last hour.
If ten men should come to you when
you are sick with an appalling sickness,
snd say that they had the same sickness,
and took Certsin medicine and it cured
! them, you would probably take it. Now,
suppose ten other men should come no
! end say: ave don't believe there is
anything in that medicine" "Weu," l
say, "hsve you ever tried it,"
"N0; | never tried it, but | don't be
Iteye there is anything in it, OF course
| you discredit their testimony. The
/ skeptic nay come sad say: "There is
no power is your religion" "HAve you
ever tried it," "N0. NO." "Then
avaunt"" Let me teke the testimony Of
/ the millions OF souls that have been con
! Verted to God, erd converted in trial ,snd
! soiaCed in the LAST hour. We will take
! tbei. testimony as they cry: eve are
witnessesN'
Some time ago Professor Henry Of
/ Washington discovered 8 new star, and
/ the tidings sped by submarine telegraph,
/ aud al the Obse-YatOries OF Europe were
watching for that new star. Oh, heerer,
/ looking cut through the darkness al thy
soul csnst thou see bright Fight
/ beamirg on thee? "Where?" you say,
"where? How can l fad II" Look
! alopg by the line Of the cross Of the Sor
of God. DO you not see it trembling
/ with all tenderness and beamIng with ali
hope? 1t IS the star Of Bethlehem.
/ peep horror then my vitals froze,
Dea h slrucs ceased the tide to stem,
Wnen suddenly star arose
Il was he star OF Bethlehem.
/ Ga, heerer, get your eye on it. I. IS
easier for you now 10 become ClTi stiaDs
tran il is to stay sway from Carist ard
/ heaven. When Madame S0ntag began
! Der musiCsl career she was hjseed off the
/ stage at Vienna BY the friends Of her
rivsl, Amelia SJeininger, w1o had elready
]
| Years passed on, and one day Madame
! Sontag, in ner glory, was riding through
tie streets of Berlin, when she saw lit
| tie child leading blind women, and ahe
said: "Come here, my little child, come
here. Who is that you are leading by
| the hand?" And the little child replied
"That's my mother; that's Amelia
I SteiDinger. Sac used to be great
singer, but.ske lost Ter voice, and she
! cried so much about it that she lost her
/ eYesight." "Give my love to her." said
Madame Sontag, "snd tell her an old &C
| quaiutsnce will call on her this after
noon"
The next week in Berlin vast assem-
blage gathered 81 benefit for that poor
/ blind woman, and 1t was said that Ma
dame Sontsg sang thet night as she had
never sung before. Aud she took skilled
Oculist, who in Vain tried TO give eyesight
| TO the poor blind woman. Until TIE Gay
J Of Amelia Steininger'9 death Madame
J Sonteg took care of her, end her deugb-
/ ter after her. That was what the queen
! Of song cid for her enemy.
| But, oh, hear q more thrilling story
still. Bind, immortal, poor and lost,
thou who, when the world and Christ
we're rivals for thy heart. didst hiss thy
Lord sway-Christ comes now to give
thee sight, to give thee home, TO give
/ thee heaven. With more titan S2ntsg' Is
! generosity He comes now to meet your
need. With more than a Sontsg's music
/ He comes to plead FOR thy deliverance.